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KRISTEVA, FEMININITY, ABJECTION

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Author	Creed, Barbara
Copyright Year	2002
Description	JULIA KRISTEVA'S POWERS OF HORROR provides us with a preliminary hypothesis for an analysis of the representation of woman as monstrous in the horror film. Although her study is concerned with psychoanalysis and literature, it nevertheless suggests a way of situating the monstrous-feminine in the horror film in relation to the maternal figure and what Kristeva terms 'abjection', that which does not 'respect borders, positions, rules', that which 'disturbs identity, system, order' (Kristeva: 1982, 4). In general terms, Kristeva is attempting to explore the different ways in which abjection works within human societies, as a means of separating out the human from the non-human and the fully constituted subject from the partially formed subject. Ritual becomes a means by which societies both renew their initial contact with the abject element and then exclude that element. Through ritual, the demarcation lines between the human and non- human are drawn up anew and presumably made all the stronger for that process. Book Name: The Horror Reader
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Ending Page	70
Page Count	7
Starting Page	64
DOI	10.4324/9780203138618-5
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2002-01-04
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Book Name: The Horror Reader Cultural Studies Abjection Kristeva Ritual Monstrous Feminine Horror Film Human Societies
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter

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